The Eternal Pause
In 2045, Michael Sunna, a three-thousand-year-old vampire and leader of the Sunna Clan, grows bored with a high-tech world of fleeting intrigues. Seeking novelty, he enters a century-long slumber in his obsidian sarcophagus, ordering his clan to wake him when the world offers something new. But a powerful traitor seals him in an eternal sleep circle, cutting him off from Gaia’s life-giving ley lines. In 2145, Michael awakens by chance—a dead rat disrupts the circle—finding his Ebon Tower in ruins, littered with bones and bullet holes, and the world transformed by the Eclipse, a cataclysmic event that unleashed chaos eighty years prior.
The Earth is now a wasteland of mutated flora and monstrous beasts, where vampires and werewolves, empowered by Gaia’s corrupted energy, vie for dominance amid dimensional portals spilling otherworldly creatures. Spying on a werewolf pack camping in his tower, Michael witnesses a low-tier corrupted beast slaughter all but two young survivors, Kai and Lena, who kill it with desperate ingenuity. Disguising his subdued power as a mere survivor, Michael joins them, learning of Haven Ridge, a hybrid camp of humans, werewolves, and low-level vampires surviving against portal-spawned threats and high-tier monsters. As he seeks the fate of his scattered Sunna Clan and the traitor who betrayed him, Michael senses a new purpose in this chaotic world. But with portals opening and Gaia’s power growing unstable, he must navigate alliances and enemies to reclaim his dominion—or risk becoming prey in a world remade by blood and ruin.